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20162026
most citedThe dynamical evolution of molecular clouds near the Galactic Centre - II. Spatial structure and kinematics of simulated clouds

91 citations · 164 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Simulations of gas inflow in the Milky Way I. Stellar-Feedback-Regulated Transport from the Central Molecular Zone to the Circumnuclear disk

Zi-Xuan Feng, Mattia C. Sormani, Robin G. Tress +18

We perform hydrodynamical simulations with radially varying resolution to study the effects of stellar feedback on the radial inflow of gas from the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ, $R…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) V: CS(2-1), SO(2_3-1_2), CH3CHO(5_1,4-4_1,3), HC3N(11-10), and H40a lines data

Pei-Ying Hsieh, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg +59

We present data from the ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) Large Program, which provides broad spectral-line and 3 mm continuum coverage of the Central Molecula…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES)-IV. Data of the two intermediate-width spectral windows

Xing Lu, Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg +61

We release the intermediate-width spectral window data from the ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) Large Program, which covers SiO(2-1), SO(2_2-1_1), H13CO+(1-0)…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) I: Overview

Steven N. Longmore, John Bally, Ashley T. Barnes +95

The mass flows and energy cycles within the inner regions of galaxies exert a powerful influence on the evolution of the galaxy population. The centre of the Milky Way is the only…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) III: Molecular line data reduction and HNCO and HCO data

Daniel L. Walker, Adam Ginsburg, Ashley T. Barnes +64

The ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) large program has observed the inner ~ 200 pc of the Milky Way at 3 mm (Band 3) using ALMA's 12m, 7m, and Total Power arra…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey (ACES) II: 3mm continuum images

Adam Ginsburg, Daniel L. Walker, Ashley T. Barnes +69

The ALMA Central Molecular Zone Exploration Survey, ACES, has mapped square arcminutes at 3 mm toward the center of our Galaxy. ACES provides the first large-scale, h…

astro-ph.GA2026

ALMA Central molecular zone Exploration Survey (ACES) VI: ALMA Large Program Reveals a Highly Filamentary Central Molecular Zone

Cara Battersby, Miriam G. Santa-Maria, Dani Lipman +44

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way is the way station that primarily controls how much gas flows from the disk of the Galaxy towards the central nucleus. While this…

astro-ph.GA2025

Rhea-RT: Dynamical impact of Central Molecular Zone conditions on the properties of the interstellar medium and stellar feedback coupling

R. G. Tress, N. Brucy, P. Girichidis +22

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is an extreme star formation environment, characterized by higher density, higher turbulence, stronger orbital shear, and stronger magnetic field s…

astro-ph.GA2024

Disruption of a massive molecular cloud by a supernova in the Galactic Centre: Initial results from the ACES project

M. Nonhebel, A. T. Barnes, K. Immer +33

The Milky Way's Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) differs dramatically from our local solar neighbourhood, both in the extreme interstellar medium conditions it exhibits (e.g. high gas,…

astro-ph.IM2024

Hybrid radiation hydrodynamics scheme with adaptive gravity-tree-based pseudo-particles

Cheryl S. C. Lau, Maya A. Petkova, Ian A. Bonnell

HII regions powered by ionizing radiation from massive stars drive the dynamical evolution of the interstellar medium. Fast radiative transfer methods for incorporating photoioniza…

astro-ph.IM2024

Hybrid Radiation Hydrodynamics scheme with gravity tree-based adaptive optimization algorithm

Cheryl S. C. Lau, Maya A. Petkova, Ian A. Bonnell

Modelling the interaction between ionizing photons emitted from massive stars and their environment is essential to further our understanding of galactic ecosystems. We present a h…

astro-ph.GA2024

The Core Mass Function Across Galactic Environments. IV. The Galactic Center

Alva V. I. Kinman, Maya A. Petkova, Jonathan C. Tan +2

The origin of the stellar Initial Mass Function (IMF) and how it may vary with galactic environment is a matter of debate. Certain star formation theories involve a close connectio…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 6 cited

The JWST Galactic Center Survey -- A White Paper

Rainer Schoedel, Steve Longmore, Jonny Henshaw +111

The inner hundred parsecs of the Milky Way hosts the nearest supermassive black hole, largest reservoir of dense gas, greatest stellar density, hundreds of massive main and post ma…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

Kinematics of Galactic Centre clouds shaped by shear-seeded solenoidal turbulence

Maya A. Petkova, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Jonathan D. Henshaw +17

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ; the central ~ 500 pc of the Galaxy) is a kinematically unusual environment relative to the Galactic disc, with high velocity dispersions and a stee…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 8 cited

The initial conditions for young massive cluster formation in the Galactic Centre: convergence of large-scale gas flows

Bethan A. Williams, Daniel L. Walker, Steven N. Longmore +12

Young massive clusters (YMCs) are compact (1 pc), high-mass (>10 M) stellar systems of significant scientific interest. Due to their rarity and rapid fo…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 6 cited

Modelling of ionising feedback with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics and Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer on a Voronoi grid

Maya A. Petkova, Bert Vandenbroucke, Ian A. Bonnell +1

The ionising feedback of young massive stars is well known to influence the dynamics of the birth environment and hence plays an important role in regulating the star formation pro…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 4 cited

The complex multi-scale structure in simulated and observed emission maps of the proto-cluster cloud G0.253+0.016 (`the Brick')

Maya A. Petkova, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, A. Louise Kluge +6

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ; the central ~ 500 pc of the Milky Way) hosts molecular clouds in an extreme environment of strong shear, high gas pressure and density, and complex…

astro-ph.GA2019

Gas flows in galactic centre environments: cloud evolution and star formation in the Central Molecular Zone

Maya A. Petkova, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen

The Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) is the most extreme star-forming environment in the Milky Way in terms of gas pressures, densities, temperatures, and dynamics. It acts as a critic…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 91 cited

The dynamical evolution of molecular clouds near the Galactic Centre - II. Spatial structure and kinematics of simulated clouds

J. M. D. Kruijssen, J. E. Dale, S. N. Longmore +16

The evolution of molecular clouds in galactic centres is thought to differ from that in galactic discs due to a significant influence of the external gravitational potential. We pr…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 6 cited

Clumpy dust rings around non-accreting young stars

Aleks Scholz, Antonella Natta, Inna Bozhinova +3

We investigate four young, but non-accreting, very low mass stars in Orion, which show irregular eclipses by circumstellar dust. The eclipses are not recurring periodically, are va…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 12 cited

Fast and accurate Voronoi density gridding from Lagrangian hydrodynamics data

Maya A. Petkova, Guillaume Laibe, Ian A. Bonnell

Voronoi grids have been successfully used to represent density structures of gas in astronomical hydrodynamics simulations. While some codes are explicitly built around using a Vor…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 22 cited

A Model for (Quasi-)Periodic Multi-wavelength Photometric Variability in Young Stellar Objects

Aurora Y. Kesseli, Maya A. Petkova, Kenneth Wood +7

We present radiation transfer models of rotating young stellar objects (YSOs) with hotspots in their atmospheres, inner disk warps and other 3-D effects in the nearby circumstellar…